Gains Quotes · Page 16

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

— Craig Thompson

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

— George Herbert

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

— Antoine Rivarol

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Those who give up cannot gain victory.

— Lee Min-ho

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

— Jerry Gillies

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

— Catherine Ndereba

A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away.

— Jon Gordon

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it…

— Herman Cain

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

— Anonymous

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

— Robert Kennedy

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers…

— Anatol Rapoport

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

— Joseph Addison

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

— Frank Shorter

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once…

— Oriana Fallaci

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most…

— Michael Lewis

We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the…

— Farrah Gray

Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us…

— Brigham Young

To gain a testimony, you must nourish it step by step. '[Your testimony] will increase as you make decisions to keep the…

— Mary N. Cook

If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to…

— Ram Dass

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not…

— Dara Torres

Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in…

— Frederick Lenz

What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…

— Max Weber

The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.…

— Robert D. Hales

The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something…

— Robertson Davies

Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of…

— Eugenie Clark

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you…

— Jim Butcher

The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation…

— Chris Heimerdinger

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it…

— Benjamin Franklin

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

— Juvenal

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

— John Muir

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

— Andrew Hawkins

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

— Elizabeth Prentiss